<p>Hello, I applied about a month ago, and i selected summer session. I am quite nervous that I won’t get in (I had high anxiety while taking the sats, and therefore scored much lower than I expected). Does applying summer session for bioengineering (I am good in math and science) is as big of a help as everyone says it is?</p>
<p>There is some great information regarding acceptance to UP verses campuses at admissions.psu.edu/facts/studentbody. They say that your GPA accounts for 2/3 and 1/3 is SAT, class rank, essay, and activities. This might be helpful, it was for my D But they say it does not guarantee admission.
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<p>CHANCE me please! Need to know that I have a chance of getting into University Park!</p>
<p>I applied back in October to College of Engineering.</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 89 (3.4?)
Weighted GPA: 92 (3.7?)
SAT: 1830 (690 M)
Taken/Taking 9 AP classes</p>
<p>I’m fine with my activities I think.</p>
<p>So based off those numbers, can I get into the College of Engineering at University Park? Obviously I’m growing more and more nervous because I’ve been waiting for a while. I believe they are just delaying my decision for mid-December because I seem borderline. I guess I should point out my that twin brother was accepted yesterday with a higher SAT, same GPA.</p>
<p>@booter: I think your GPA will help you out a lot, you’ll probably get in.</p>
<p>@faa5115: Selecting summer session definitely helps. Look at it from Admissions’ standpoint: if you don’t check it, you can either get accepted into Fall or get denied (or get into your second choice; so you really only have 2 (3) options, one of which is getting denied. If you do check it, your opening another option for yourself: accepted Fall, accepted summer, denial, branch campus. So if they think your borderline, they may send you to Summer Session instead of Fall, but it’s better than getting rejected.</p>
<p>@nervousss: Assuming you selected Summer session as a possibility, that’d be my guess. Not sure though.</p>
<p>my gpa was 3.81
sats 1620 (again anxiety)
I took four college chemistry courses, two each for the past two summer breaks
general chemistry 1, gen chem 2, ochem 1, and ochem 2 all at IUP.</p>
<p>Is this good for summer sessions bioeng? (you don’t have to answer my question since i know you have been getting a lot of these “chance me questions” and I understand they may be annoying. I am also aware that what you say has no influence)</p>
<p>I am in state.<br>
I have heard that borderline people hear later than usual, and my friends applied aroudn the same time i have, and have been accepted a few days ago.</p>
<p>For summer session, your major doesn’t really make a difference. You’d be getting a jump-start on classes almost all freshmen have to take.</p>
<p>I think you’ll get into summer session, with your GPA and courseload helping you and your SAT hurting you.</p>
<p>Thanks Duke26.<br>
Just wondering, why is summer session easier to get into?</p>
<p>Penn State uses it as a way to admit the borderline students.</p>
<p>[Summer</a> Session 2011 - University Park](<a href=“http://www.psu.edu/SummerSession/]Summer”>Summer Session)
[Summer</a> Sessions](<a href=“http://dus.psu.edu/handbook/summer.html]Summer”>http://dus.psu.edu/handbook/summer.html)</p>
<p>Just making sure- don’t acceptances for Schreyer’s honors college come out some time in February? You can get accepted to the University but you don’t find out about the honor’s college until February, right?</p>
<p>Having chosen not to go through the Honors College process, I actually don’t know the answer to this question.</p>
<p>I’m sure a quick call to Admissions would answer it though.</p>
<p>Does it take longer to hear back for summer session? If so, would I most likely have to wait until January?</p>
<p>Wow sorry I totally thought I answered this.</p>
<p>As far as I’m aware it doesn’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did since they basically have another semester to sort people into.</p>
<p>Chance me for the College of Health & Human Development at PSU UP (want to major in nutrition)…Have a weighted GPA of 4.0, SAT score of 1710, and have many extracurriculars, all of my classes t/o high school have been honors/college prep…I applied the first week the online application was open and still havent received a decision</p>
<p>Can you talk a little about Penn State vs. Pitt? I’ve been accepted to both, summer for PSU and I’m leaning towards Penn State but it would be good to get the perspective of a current student on why I should pick PSU or Pitt. I’m not totally sure what I want to study.</p>
<p>Pitt is urban, but with lots of green space. It is located in the middle of the cultural district of Pittsburgh and is adjacent to the main art and natural history museum, a major park (with great jogging trails), botanical garden, and city library, all of which are free to Pitt students. All city public transportation is free to Pitt students, and the university encourages the students to take advantage of all that it has to offer…and it has quite a bit for a city of its size because all of the steel magnates blew big chunks of the fortunes building things in the city in the early 20th Century. Pitt runs a program call PittArts (PITT ARTS : University of Pittsburgh) which provides discounted and free tickets to a lot of events like plays and concerts, etc. So not only do have everything that is going on at Pitt, but also easy access to all the cultural and sporting events going on in the city, as well everything going on at Carnegie-Mellon University, which is adjacent to Pitt campus. Pitt and CMU have a lot of collaborative projects as well. Pitt’s campus is also in close proximity to a larger number and variety of restaurants than at PSU, which is nice when you are tired of campus food. Pitt’s primary major hospital (UPMC) and medical research facilities are right on campus allowing for easy access for students interested in obtaining research or clinical experience in the bio/health or medical fields. Penn State is rural. It is located in a medium-sized college town in the middle of Pennsylvania. The town itself is nice enough, a classic college town, but it is not close to anything urban. The campus is much more of a traditional grassy quad type of campus with plenty of trees. It’s layout is huge. Where Pitt is compact in size with many taller buildings, PSU is spread out over a large area which often requires shuttles to get from one part to another in adequate amount of time. One last thing, Pitt has way cooler buildings. You’ll not find anything like the Cathedral of Learning, inside and out, anywhere else in the world.</p>
<p>Pitt is much smaller than PSU (17,000 undergrads vs 38,000) so you won’t have as enormous of intro classes at Pitt. Pitt will have some classes that are 100-200, but at PSU you’ll have some that are 500-1000. As you progress in your major, class size whittles down at both.</p>
<p>PSU’s alumni base is huge, so it is probably superior for networking purposes, but the downside to that is one of the reasons it is so big is that it has 19 branch campus locations that have unquestionable lower standards and academics than at the main campus but everyone is getting the same diploma. Pitt has four branch campuses, two of which are ranked in their region by US News, and a much smaller percentage of Pitt diplomas originate from these regional campuses as compared to PSU.</p>
<p>Pitt, like PSU, is a major sports school. If you like sports, you have a top 20 football team and a top 10 basketball team to cheer for at Pitt. At PSU, football is king and basketball is essentially non-existant. Football and greek life a much bigger part of Penn State culture. Partying and drinking also have bigger reputations at PSU. All these aspects are at Pitt too, but life doesn’t necessarily center around them as the city provides, imo, many more diversions.</p>
<p>PSU is probably better known in business and engineering. Pitt is better known in anything in the health and biomedical sciences, but also highly regarded in philosophy, creative writing, international studies, information science, etc. Other programs at both schools are also excellent, but these are some of the best. Both schools have good reputations. Admissions scores in GPA, SAT, and class rank are higher at Pitt so it is somewhat more selective. Pitt also has a larger endowment, so often provides better financial packages. USNews rankings are slightly higher for PSU, but there are an equal number of other rankings that have Pitt higher. The overall rankings are about a wash if you average things out. You won’t go wrong attending either school, so pick the one you feel the happiest and most comfortable at.</p>
<p>Found this here - <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pittsburgh/910022-penn-state-vs-pitt.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pittsburgh/910022-penn-state-vs-pitt.html</a> hope it helps</p>
<p>@dancer87: Your GPA is definitely strong but it looks like your SAT score is the thing that’s holding you up now.</p>
<p>@AM5888: If I wasn’t studying for finals now, I’d probably write a lengthy response to your question, though (thankfully) DylanK was nice enough to do that for me. However, the above post seems to have a bit of a Pitt-slant, so I’d definitely do a little more research (on CC and beyond), and definitely try to visit both schools. Sometimes schools just have that ‘it’ factor that you can’t fully experience online.</p>
<p>@AM5888 @Duke26 yea it was from a PITT thread so i figured it had that slant but just google pitt vs psu college confidential and you will fina a lot about the subject because like you a lot of people have asked that.</p>
<p>Hi there, I applied on Nov. 28th, and was wondering if you could take a few min, Duke, to offer your opinion on my chances of getting into the meteorology program at University Park. I am anxiously awaiting a response!</p>
<p>GPA: 3.6 uw, school doesn’t do weighted</p>
<p>SAT: 1990 total, 1270 two-part, one sitting</p>
<p>Taken 6 honors courses, all college classes this (senior) year, including Calculus</p>
<p>Solid personal statement i’d say</p>
<p>Limited extracurriculars, unfortunately</p>
<p>Once again, Univ. Park for meteorology (only campus it’s offered at)</p>
<p>Did sign-up for summer session, although i’d highly prefer your opinion on me getting in for Fall (2012, of course)</p>
<p>Thanks so much!</p>
<p>I know people with worse stats in the Meteo department right now. I think you have a good shot.</p>
<p>I’d say summer at the worst, Fall if I had to bet.</p>
<p>does Penn state in Harrisburg have Navy ROTC?</p>